"Bunch of muppets."
Connoisseurs of Instagram accounts belonging to World Surf League executive suite brass will certainly know that rarely, if ever, do fans project negativity in the comments. Hearts, heart eyes, praying hands, hands raising the roof, shakas and thumbs up are regularly employed as the serfs toiling behind the patented Wall of Positive Noise love to let their masters know what a great job they are doing.
But cracks beginning to form?
Yesterday, it was announced that the upcoming Quiksilver/ROXY Pro France would be cancelled due to lack of “appropriate support to make the event financially feasible.”
Professional surfers, who had been relegated to the minor leagues, or Challenger Series, with promises of great fortune down there grew immediately concerned while fans of competitive professional surfing became frustrated.
Jessi Miley-Dyer, Senior Vice President of Tours and Head of Competition, took to Instagram in order to farm some hearts, heart eyes, praying hands etc., writing, “With the cancellation of the Quiksilver Pro France today, I’d like to let you know we will be revising the number of events counting on the Challenger Series Rankings (and for 2023 CT qualification ) from five to four @wsl
But the normally docile viciously rounded on her instead.
A sampling:
“Bummer”
“So disappointing”
“Thumbs down.”
“Super gutted.”
“One of the best most iconic events dumped from the CT and now the CS. Absolute travesty Portugal should have been offed. But WSL Europe is there. It used to be HQ in France. I smell politics.”
“Such a disgrace to every surfer on the challenger series.”
“Bunch of muppets you guys are at wsl playing with your little toys but no ethical approach hidding behind a ‘green business’ lookalike just so hippies leave you alone – pathetic.”
And more.
A peasant revolt in the works?
More as the story develops.
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gummie bears will rot the teeth! deleted that pic!
naw…at great grammy’s place…4th generation.
Clearly managed to slip the authorities after her pool-side adventure, as detailed previously.
What new provincial hotel / population will suffer next for her and Elo’s blood lust?
The funniest thing about all the hat they copped over this was that most people still thought it was a CT event. How can you keep people happy when they don’t even know what they’re watching?
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All I can gather from that is that colder states enjoy the occasional warmth.
so is there any correlation between the “Golden Shower States” and the Trumpyites ???
Are there Russian film crews haunting/hunting the “Golden ” States for Trumpyites who could render a favor or 2 for Mama Rusky??
Hey Chas did you delete my comment ? Are you really NcArroll
To be very honest, I sometimes wish I was.
The Night of the Long Knives is approaching. Slashing away the chaff. The residual cuts will be deep and scarring.
Et tu Miley?
In a way we are all WSL fans
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Was there no live feed of todays HB challenger? Was the offering unwatchable?
Usually is at HB surf city. Described in a posting from the front line this morning that conditions were challenging and tricky (rolls eyes)
Was the challenger actually on? Or were they still doing the trails/Longboarding/juniors or one of the other half dozen events that get bundled in alongside the main show?
Outrage
Would it really be so bad if we went back to one tour, 4 man heats for the qualifiers and the top 16 (or 32) seeded deeper into the event?
The whole thing is a schermozzle. Three separate tours, mid year cut, final 5, pipe in january, its all fucked up.
Just start in jan, finish in december and crown a legitimate world champ at pipeline.
Yes, it would be really bad to go back to one tour.
Not really.
Hope you’re enjoying Huntington then, because that’s what you’ll be getting (except a week longer)
Another way to look at this is possibly france will be back on the ct next year so that there will be more ct events before the mid year cut(what the surfers wanted) and then less cs events ( what the surfers and the viewers wanted)
Yep a Euro CT leg just isn’t a proper one without the French event on it.
And if there did have to be only one event,it should be Hossegor hands down over Peniche in Portugal.
At least proper turns are always on the menu there instead of only barrels and air reverses on the closeouts when it’s small.
Bon voyage
Oh no I’m so disappointed, I was so looking forward to actively not watching this event
If I was a Quey warrior who’d spent my shekels on flights accom etc for the event I would probably be fairly raging right meow
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Bunch of Muppets!
Impressive how you photoshopped JMD in there too….
What will the 137 potential CS viewers do now?
Everyone walking the halls of the WSL is a dead man/woman walking, just waiting for the last set to roll in before sundown.
To paraphrase what a wise Australian/Los Angelean gentleman once said…
…”I’ll play along with the charade
Cos the wossles had a season of change
You know she looks so dirty like the sole of your boot
I wanna tell her I don’t love her but the point is probably moot”…